Emma Bonney is an

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world champion player of

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, and

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player. She has won the women's world billiards title a record thirteen times. Emma Bonney is the only player to be ranked number 1 in the world at both snooker and billiards at the same time.

Biography

Bonney was born on 13 July 1976 in

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English billiards

Bonney has won the women's world billiards title a record thirteen times. Bonney won the first of her world billiards championship titles in 2000, having been runner-up in 1998. On 8 April 2010, she won her fifth World Ladies Billiards title at the

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, beating

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269–220 in the final. Bonney won her 13th world billiards championship, and sixth consecutive victory, in 2018. The 2019 World Women's Billiards Championship was held in

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, and Bonney did not participate.

Snooker

Bonney has been the runner-up in the

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three times. She lost the final of the 2006 championship to

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3–5. In 2011 she again to Evans, 1–5. In

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Bonney lost 2–6 to Ng On Yee.World Champions
Women's World Snooker. Retrieved 16 August 2019. Bonney won two women's ranking tournaments in 2008, the South Coast Classic and the British Open. She won her third ranking tournament in 2012, the Southern Women's Classic championship, using a that she had recently bought and had only used for five hours of practice before the competition. She was runner-up to Evans in the 2008 European Snooker Championships. Her highest ranking in women's snooker was 1st.

Career finals

Billiards Snooker

References

External links

World Ladies Billiards Champions
World Billiards
Player Profile – Emma Bonney
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